‘Coded Bias’ screens in Vermont free next week

Shalini Kantayya’s newest film, “Coded Bias,” will screen for free across Vermont in a virtual format from Dec. 7-13. Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? “Coded Bias” follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that many facial recognition technologies fail more often on darker-skinned faces. Buolamw … (read more)

The exciting online monthly movie series Split/Screen launches Friday, Nov. 20, and streams 24/7 for 10 days, concluding Nov. 29.  Co-presented by the Vermont International Film Festival [VTIFF] and the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival [MNFF], Split/Scr … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Community Classic Film Club will convene for the second film in the fall series today, Nov. 5 to view and discuss “La Strada” (1954). The film will be available on Kanopy, which allows viewers to screen the film at their conven … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — A short film shot entirely in Addison County by local filmmaker Natasha Ngaiza has been officially selected to take part in two important film festivals and, because the pandemic has nixed in-person festivals, will be screened online next wee … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Nineteen trips, three documentary films, and a book later, Sas Carey decided to do things a little differently for her fourth film about the nomadic reindeer herders of northern Mongolia who she’s been following since 1994. “I’m doing everyth … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Marquis Theater in Middlebury is giving movie viewers a chance to be the judge when it screens this year’s 10 finalists for the Manhattan Short Film Festival on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 2 and 6 p.m. Tickets will be sold at their regular rate … (read more)